How to Make Homemade Pizza

Pizza is one of our most popular Italian dishes
because it can be topped with many different ingredients and can be baked thick
or thin according to taste. Our tips will tell you how to make a perfect pizza.
We have also prepared some pizza recipes.

The pizza dough and the pizza
ingredients

Roll out the yeast dough from
water, flour, olive oil, salt and yeast thinly (possibly pre-bake, the pizza
dough will then not become so lightly mushy), then cover. If pizza dough
remains, form small pizza rolls and bake with it.

Also suitable for pizza: Quark oil
dough. As a quick pizza alternative, flat bread, rolls etc. can also be topped
and baked.

Reduce the tomato sauce a little
before spreading it on the pizza dough. This will cause it to lose liquid and
the pizza will remain crispier.

To gratinate, use cheese that goes
well. E.g. Mozzarella, Emmentaler, Gouda. Only pour the hard cheese (and also
ingredients such as rocket and fresh basil) over the pizza after baking.

Let your imagination run wild when
topping the pizza. Two to three dominant flavours are usually sufficient for
the perfect pizza, because less is sometimes more.

Those who like to top their pizza
with salty ingredients like anchovies or olives or with spicy sausage should be
sparing when salting.

Pizza plate, pizza stone or pizza
oven?

Bake the pizza on the tray:
Preheat the oven (preferably with the baking tray) so that it is evenly heated.
Grease the trays with heatable olive oil or line them with baking paper. Then
spread the dough on top. If you like round pizzas, you can use special round
pizza moulds made of metal.

Pizza and bread can be prepared
just as crispy on ceramic bricks as in a wood oven. The stones transfer the
stored heat to the dough so that the pizza is beautifully evenly baked. When
using a pizza stone, preheat either the stone or the oven and bake in the lower
part of the oven.

The classic way to bake pizza is
to use a wood-burning oven. A wood fire heats the Schamottsteine in the
interior. When the ideal temperature is reached, the embers are either removed
from the oven or, in larger pizza ovens, pushed together in the rear part of
the oven or on the side. The bottom of the pizza oven is cleared of ash
residues and the pizza is baked on the stones. The stones pass on the stored
heat evenly to the dough.

The baking temperature

If one bakes one’s pizza in the
pizza oven, the finished pizza should already be taken out after approximately
three minutes with the wooden slide, as the baking temperature in the pizza
oven with approximately 350 degrees is much higher than in the electric oven.
By baking the pizza in the pizza oven, it gets a slightly spicy taste, the dough
becomes wonderfully crispy and the topping remains nicely juicy.

If you prepare your pizza in an
electric oven, you should make sure that the temperature is always as high as
possible – just like in a pizza oven. The following applies: 240-250 degrees
for thin pizzas that are only baked for a short time (approx. ten minutes).
Thicker pizzas and focaccia that remain in the oven for 30-40 minutes should be
baked at 220 degrees.

Quark oil pizza dough

Step 1

Mix flour with baking powder in a mixing bowl.
Add the remaining ingredients for the dough and mix everything with a hand
mixer (dough hook) first briefly to lowest, then at highest speed quickly to a
smooth dough. Then roll out the dough on a floured work surface and place on a
baking tray.